Where Does Cary Elwes Come From? How Do You Pronounce Cary Elwes Last Name?

Cary Elwes was bon in Westminster, London, United Kingdom.

Cary Elwes is pronounced KEHR-iy El-wes.

The surname Elwes was first found in Nottinghamshire where the family name was first referenced in the 13th century when they held estates in that shire and held a family seat at Habelsthorp.

Later, evidence was found that some of the family moved to Throcking in Hertfordshire.

Elwes is the youngest of three sons of portrait painter Dominic Elwes and interior designer and socialite Tessa Kennedy.

He is the brother of artist Damian Elwes[9] and film producers Cassian Elwes and Milica Kastner. His stepfather, Elliott Kastner, was an American film producer and the first American to set up independent film production in the United Kingdom.

His paternal grandfather was the portrait painter Simon Elwes, whose own father was the diplomat and tenor Gervase Elwes (1866–1921).

His other great-grandfathers include the diplomat Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennell and industrialist Ivan Rikard Ivanović. Elwes has English, Irish, Scottish, Croatian-Jewish, and Serbian ancestry, the latter two from his maternal grandmother, Daška McLean, whose second husband, Billy McLean, was an operative for Special Operations Executive during World War II.

One of Elwes’s relatives is the famed British miser John Elwes, who was the inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (1843), having been referenced by Charles Dickens himself in chapter six of his last completed novel, Our Mutual Friend.

Elwes himself played five roles in the 2009 film adaptation of A Christmas Carol.

Through his maternal grandfather, Elwes is also related to Sir Alexander William “Blackie” Kennedy, one of the first photographers to document the archaeological site of Petra following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.